In the recent Canadian federal election, five students and recent graduates were elected to Parliament: Charmaine Borg, Mylène Freeman, Laurin Liu, Matthew Dubé, and Pierre-Luc Dusseault, who became Canada’s youngest ever MP at 19.

Danielle Boissoneau’s academic background is from McMaster, where she was a student of Indigenous studies and political science, and she is also an Annishnaabeq of the Old Turtle Clan, from the Garden River First Nation.

This post is contributed by Adrienne Courey, who has recently been accepted into culinary school in Ottawa! My parents always told me that school was for learning. University, specifically, was a place to learn about anything you’ve ever been interested in or wanted to know more about. As a result, I grew up with the […]